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It may be good to cry out loud. (Photo: Getty Images) Getty They say that there’s no sense in crying over spilled milk. But what do they know? Crying can get you another glass of milk if you do it loud enough. Plus, crying may serve a real physiologic purpose, according to a study published recently in

Redmi K20, Redmi K20 Pro India launch, Realme X price in India reveal, and Xiaomi Mi A3 debut grabbed the headlines this week. Additionally, Samsung Galaxy A80 launch in India, Nokia 9 PureView release in offline stores, and Realme 3i announcement dominated the conversation. Further, WhatsApp Payments may be officially rolling out soon and BSNL

In Hollywood, we’ve received messages from extraterrestrials many times. In Contact, a message from the stars started out as a mathematical sequence of prime numbers. In Arrival, a linguist and a physicist painstakingly teach aliens English, while simultaneously learning their language of floating ink. But what would happen if, tomorrow, we actually received a message

What do places like Shropshire (United Kingdom), Hawkes Bay (New Zealand), Sydney (Australia), New York (USA), and Krakow (Poland) have in common? They are just some of the 822 (and counting) cities, councils and jurisdictions worldwide to have declared a climate emergency. With record temperatures gripping Europe, widespread drought in South America, and ever-decreasing ice coverage in Greenland, the effects of climate change are

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin <div innerhtml=" Both astronauts had extensive photography training in preparation for the mission. NASA Have you ever gone on an trip with friends, only to discover afterward that there’s only one picture of you from the whole trip, and it includes your posterior rather than your

When President Donald Trump asked Buzz Aldrin, the second human ever to walk on the moon, what he thought about the United States’ current ability to operate in space 50 years after the Apollo 11 mission, the ex-astronaut had a ready response. “Actually, I’ve been a little disappointed over the last 10 or 15 years,”

One small step for man has become many important steps for medicine. (Photo: Getty Images) Getty On this day, 50 years ago, medicine got mooned. It was July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the Earth’s moon, famously stating “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for

The new Artemis identity draws bold inspiration from the Apollo program and forges its own path, showing how it will pursue lunar exploration like never before and pave the way to Mars. NASA The 50 anniversary of Apollo 11 is done. Even when/if humans revisit the Moon, no-one is going to be re-visiting any of

A view of a Meteor Shower and the purple Milky Way with pine trees forest silhouette in the foreground. Perseid Meteor Shower observation. Night sky nature summer landscape. Colorful shooting stars. Getty Is there anything better than lying on the ground on a warm night to look for shooting stars? It’s a surrender to the stars, and

Elon Musk ASSOCIATED PRESS Elon Musk said startup Neuralink, which aims to build a scalable implant to connect human brains with computers, has already implanted chips in rats and plans to test its brain-machine interface in humans within two years, with a long-term goal of people “merging with AI.” Brain-machine interfaces have been around for

The Indian space agency has rectified the fault in its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle-Mark III (GSLV-Mk III) whose Monday flight with Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft was called off one hour before its lift off. While there is no official word about the status of the rocket since the flight was called off due to a technical snag,

A live television image of Neil Armstrong on the surface of the moon. NASA July 20, 1969: David Grinspoon—then nine years old—is sitting on a rug in his parent’s bedroom in Wellesley, Mass., spellbound by two blurry shapes drifting across a television screen. Those live pictures, from nearly a quarter of a million miles away,

Total Lunar Eclipse 2018, Blood Moon Getty After last night’s partial lunar eclipse and this week’s Apollo 11 50th anniversary celebrations, here’s what you need to know about major upcoming lunar events in the next year or so. 1 – A rare ‘black moon’ When: July 31, 2019 This one actually only applies to North America.

A ShakeMap of the quake, with the epicentre located at the position of the star. The redder the liens, the greater the felt shaking was at that location. USGS Preliminary reports are indicating that a magnitude 6.4 earthquake just rocked southern California this Thursday at around 1030 hours, local time, with the epicentre appearing to

The Milky Way as viewed from Sossusvlei in Namibia in the southern hemisphere, early November 2018. Jamie Carter Did you hear about yesterday’s total solar eclipse too late to consider a trip down to South America to see it? Such a trip takes advance planning and huge expense, of course, but there’s no way you’ll

India’s ambitious plan of building a space station is at a nascent stage, and foreign collaborations for it have not yet been finalised, the government said on Wednesday. The space station, which is planned after India’s first manned mission to space – Gaganyaan in 2022, will be of modular design, with the initial modules weighing

Curtis Solsvig, managing director at Goldin Associates and interim CEO at uBiome Courtesy of Goldin Associates The new interim CEO of troubled microbiome startup uBiome, Curtis Solsvig, is a longtime turnaround and restructuring expert at financial advisory firm Goldin Associates and the former chief restructuring officer of failed drone startup Lily Robotics. Earlier this week,

“Whoops, my bad!” – nature NASA Rocks in space come in all shapes and sizes. The biggest and rarest ones compete with the sizes of moons (and sometimes argu e that they should instead be called planets, but that’s another article), while the tiniest are just microscopic pieces of dirt that lazily drift around the

All of the stars Matthew Knight saw through the giant telescope in Arizona were bright with persistent light. All of them but one, which appeared to be flashing, in a way – light that went in and out, dull and then bright, every hour. He assumed that there was something wrong with his data. But